Match-safe.



W. N. SEWELL.

MATCH SAFE.

APPLIOATIOH rILnn D30. 11, 1010.

1,004,090. Patented Sept. 26, 1911.

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lnventor Attorneys COLUMBIA PLANOGIAH CO-.WASNINGTON. D. C.

Inventor r I I Attorneys W. N. SEWBLL.

MATCH SAFE.

APPLICATION IILED DEO.17, 1910.

Patented Sept. 26, 1911.

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WILLIAM N. SEWELL, OF WINCHESTER, KENTUCKY.

MATCH-SAFE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed December 17, 1910. Serial No. 597,854.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM N. SnwnLL, a citizen of the United States, residing at l/Vinchester, in the county of Clark and State of Kentucky, have invented a new and useful Match-Safe, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to special receptacles, and more particularly to those known as match safes; and the object of the same is to produce a receptacle of this kind adapted to contain a match box of the type now on the market.

To this end the invention consists in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, and as shown in the drawings wherein Figure 1 is a perspective view of this match safe complete, and Figs. 2 and 3 are vertical sections through the same at right angles to each other. Fig. 4 is a perspective away at one end as necessary for use with this safe. Fig. 5 is a plan view of the blank from which the body is made, and Fig. 6 a similar View of the blank which forms the bottom of said body, while Fig. 7 is a similar view of the blank which forms the band around said bottom. Fig. 8 is a detail of the flap. Figs. 9 and 10 are plan views of the blanks respectively forming the wall of the cover and the partition therein. Fig. 11 is a detail of the support.

This match safe is by preference made entirely of paper board of such weight that it may be scored and folded on the dotted lines illustrated in the views which show the blanks, although of course it is possible to make it of wood, metal, or other material possessing suflicient pliability and other attributes to adapt it for this use. The present illustration shows this improved safe as proportioned so as to receive a match box found in common use today upon the market, whereof the casing lettered M in Fig. 4 and sand-papered along one side as at S will be slid slightly off the match box proper and torn away a little at one end as shown at m; then it will be slipped back onto the box and the whole stood upright within the safe as best seen in Fig. 2, whereby the matches within the box will drop to its lower end, out the opening at m, and into a tray at the bottom of the safe which is normally closed by the flap shown in Fig. 8, and from the tray the operator picks the matches one by one, first raising the flap with his finger.

It is obvious that the match safe can be proportioned so as to contain match boxes of other size than that illustrated.

The body 10 of the safe is formed from the blank shown in Fig. 5 and comprises three panels 11., 12 and 13 and two flaps 14 at the outer edges of the outermost panels 11 and 13 which are of such width that when this blank is folded into shape as seen in Fig. 1 a vertical space remains between the edges of the flaps and the sand papered surface S of the match box casing M is exposed. The lower end of the panel 11 which will stand at the front of the box is cut away as at 15 to register with the torn ofi portion at of the casing M and forms the outlet from the body into the tray. The latter is formed of a bottom shown in Fig. 6 and a band shown in Fig. 7 The bottom comprises a rectangular center 21 and four edge flaps 22 notched at their corners 23 so that they may all be turned about at right angles to the center. The band comprises a central panel 24, which stands across the front of the tray as best seen in Fig. 1, two side panels 25, and two end flaps 26. The flaps of the bottom are bent up, the band is bent around them with its flaps 26 at the rear of the body, and the parts are stapled or otherwise secured rigidly together and to the body as at 27.

The flap 28 shown in Fig. 8 is then attached by a hinge 29 to the front of the body panel 11 above its cut away portion 15, and obviously drops into closed position over the tray as will be clear. The cover comprises a band forming its wall and a cross partition, the blanks for these members being shown in Figs. 9 and 10. The wall includes four panels 31, 32, 33 and 34, and an end flap 35 adapted to be connected to the remote end of the first panel 31; and the partition includes a rectangular center 36 and four side flaps 37 notched as at 38 at their corners. These flaps are turned upward at right angles to the center, the band passed around them, and the members secured together by staples 39 or otherwise. It is obvious that this form of cover may he slipped onto the open upper Patented Sept. 26, 1911. i

sary to remove an empty match box and insert a new one.

The support best seen in detail in Fig. 11 may be and by preference'is of Wire bent practically into the shape of a hair pin having two arms 40 with a bend 41 between v them at their upper ends and reversely bent feet 42 at their lower extremities. This support is laid against the back of the body (see Figs. 2 and 3) with its feet hooked inside the flaps 26 of the band around the bottom thereof and possibly hooked under the lower edge of the rear panel 13 of the body, its arms 40 rise thence along the back of the safe and extend above the upper end of the body, and when the cover is applied the bend 41 of the support may be passed between one of the panels of its wall and one of the flaps 37 of its partition as seen in Fig. l, and thereby the cover will be frictionally held in place so that the live matches or the match box will not be dislodged if the safe should be accidentally knocked over.

The folding of paper blanks 011 their score lines is so well known in the art of making boxes that I have indicated such scores only by dots and have not elaborated upon the process of folding and connecting the parts. I show and describe staples as connecting means, though it is obvious that glue, rivets or other equivalent devices might be employed. Where necessary the corners are notched as has been explained, and the notches may be beveled as indicated in Fig. 7 and as some manufacturers prefer.

The paper board or other material of which the safe is composed may be treated to render it more sightly, or even fire-proof, and it may bear illustrative or advertising matter.

It is hardly necessary to amplify the mode of using this safe, further than to say that the casingof the match box is torn away as at m, the cover lifted off the safe, the match box and its casing inserted so that its opening m registers withthe opening 15 into the tray, the cover replaced, and the whole hung against the wall as by a nail therein which passes under the band 4L1 of the support. Obviously after the matches are all consumed, the old match box is removed and a new one substituted.

What is claim-ed as new is 1. A match safe comprising an upright body composed of three panels and two flaps, the combined width of the latter being less than that of any panel so as to leave a space between their edges through which the scratching surface of the inclosed match box is exposed, the lower end of the front panel being cut away; a bottom secured to and larger than the lower end of said body and its front end forming a tray communieating with said cut away portion, a band around the bottom secured to said flaps and spanning the lower end of the space between them; and a cover removably closing upper end of said body and spanning the open upper end of the space between the adjacent edges of said flaps.

2. In a match safe, the combination with the '5 an upright rectangular body having an outi let opening at its lower end, a bottom secured thereto and having a tray registering with said opening, and a top removably closing the upper end of the body and comprising a surrounding band and a partition i across the interior thereof between its upper and lower edges; of a support consisting of a piece of wire bent into two arms standing against the rear of the body, having feet at their lower extremities secured inside In testimony that I claim the foregoing it:

as my own, I have hereto aflixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM N. SEWELL.

Witnesses V. H. Woons, W. H. SMITH.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. 0. 

